NASA Astronaut Scott Carpenter

October 10, 2013 |John Boyd

Mercury mission astronaut Scott Carpenter died Oct. 10, 2013 at the age of 88

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PHOTO FILED: MALCOLM SCOTT CARPENTER. 1967 - After announcement of his new Navy assignment, astronaut M. Scott Carpenter talks with his daughters, Kris and Candy, at their home near the Houston Manned Spacecraft Center. On the table are models of the Mercury spacecraft in which he orbited Earth three times in 1962 and Sealab II, in which he lived for 30 days 205 feet under the Pacific Ocean. credit: c. 1967 World Book Encyclopedia Science Service, Inc. / Del Borer

PHOTO FILED: MALCOLM SCOTT CARPENTER. 1967 - After announcement of his new Navy assignment, astronaut M. Scott Carpenter talks with his daughters, Kris and Candy, at their home near the Houston Manned Spacecraft Center. On the table are models of the Mercury spacecraft in which he orbited Earth three times in 1962 and Sealab II, in which he lived for 30 days 205 feet under the Pacific Ocean. credit: c. 1967 World Book Encyclopedia Science Service, Inc. / Del Borer